Welcome to Code Club!

Specialist Analytics Team

Our Mission

Teach a highly-valued skill within the NHS and beyond
Spread the use of more advanced analytical techniques
Foster a coding ecosystem at SCW
Share and spark ideas about how we can improve our work through coding
Encourage methods for collaboration that improve reproducibility and transparency
Dispel some myths around some data analysis concepts

No coding experience? No problem

Our core syllabus will cover:

What to install
An introduction to essential programming concepts
Running code line-by-line in beginner-friendly Jupyter Notebooks
Working on Python scripts in Visual Studio Code
Virtual environment management
Collaboration on coding projects using GitHub

Visualisations

Future topics to be covered

Comparison of visualisation packages available in Python
Visualisation best practice
Interactive visualisations & dashboarding
Reproducible visualisations

Demo

Visualisations Demonstration Repository

If you like what you saw today, you can find the repository for the demonstration here

Automation

Future topics to be covered

Webscraping
Merging multiple data files
Extracting data from formatted documents
Extracting files from Outlook mailboxes

Demo

Automation Demonstration Repository

If you like what you saw today, you can find the repository for the demonstration here

Data Science

Future topics to be covered

Foundational concepts
Linear algebra
Regression techniques
Categorisation techniques

Demo

Data Science Demonstration Repository

If you like what you saw today, you can find the repository for the demonstration here

How do I get involved?

Where and When?

Sessions will be an hour long, held once per fortnight- 3:00 PM on a Thursday.

Join us on Teams

See you on the 1st May!